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Sowing strips of wildflowers along conventional cereal fields and the increased density of flowers in organic farming encourage bumblebees as well as solitary wild...
Plant tissue engineering improves drought and salinity tolerance
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Extreme warming of the South Pole
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Plastic recycling from Europe is being dumped in Asian waters
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Major new paleoclimatology study shows global warming has upended 6,500 years of cooling
Over the past 150 years, global warming has more than undone the global cooling that occurred over the past six millennia, according to a...
Size matters for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
New research has shown that Drax power station in North Yorkshire is the optimal site for the carbon capture and storage facilities that will...
Beavers gnawing away at the permafrost
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Multi-hazard dependencies can increase or decrease risk
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 June 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0832-yIn risk analysis, it is recognized that hazards can often combine to worsen their joint impact,...
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